Maxima and Alexia make a piste-perfect mum and daughter pair

18 FEBRUARY 2009With a few pointers from their mum Princess Maxima's young daughters' skiing skills seem to be coming on in leaps and bounds. Three-year-old Alexia, her middle girl, was quite at home showing off her skills for the cameras during the Dutch royals' annual break recently.

Dressed in an eye-catching red ski outfit like her mother and big sister Amalia, who's five, the princess glided confidently down the slopes at the family's favourite resort of Lech in Austria.